Image Post: Pictures of Dragons

And by dragons I mean dragon, and pictures I mean one picture over and over again modified in different ways.


So, once upon a time, long ago, seven months and 6 days ago apparently, facebook hit me with an ad that I almost entirely ignored.  I didn't pay an attention to what was being advertized, but I snagged this image:

For anyone unfamiliar with facebook ads, that is original size.

For anyone unfamiliar with me, I fiddle with pictures. See what I did to the Mona Lisa, and both the Sparklegul and the Sparklegul revisited.  Though, chronologically speaking, the Mona Lisa came last in that list.

Anyway I'd done some work on it in the past:

This is not original size, original size being just a tad too big for the blog.

And then returned to it more recently:

And many more, because once I start I just sort of get fixated.  But I figured six was enough.  Though now that I say that I have a temptation to make one more.

Well, that was disappointing, my two attempts to combine the colors of that last one with not-fuzziness of an earlier one didn't go so well:

One more, as expected, similar results:

Anyway, pretty pictures.

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[Added] And then it occurred to me that I could do similar things with the one I made way back when, and I went with a more more subtlety on the second one: